New drug to reduce ladies' month cycles to 4 per year

[motorgypsy]

Attention Ladies:

There are apparently at least two things on the market that reduce the menstural cycle to just four times a year. It seems that female doctors and nurses have been experimenting for years at eliminating the monthly cycles with no adverse effects and finally the drug companies got a couple of different methods for doing this approved. One will go generic soon. Came a little to late for we geezers ladies but what a huge help for younger women - especially with severe pms etc.

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[ASB.Immortality]

Right now, the one I know of is Seasonale. But I definately don't like it or recommend it to anyone. That is how I have Kennedy. But I still love her! But I just loved Depo Provera but I know that there are alot of people it doesn't agree with.

They just have to some up with some to get that money from everyone. Godforbid someone can get the generic cheaper so we gotta give something else they have to pay top dollar for.

[motorgypsy]

Seasonale is going generic. The new one is Seasonique. None are for sure - that's for sure. A friend has a son who the doctor said was probably born with her IUD in his hand! The male contraceptive is a lot closer to being accpeted and working well now also.

[Mellifluous]

Well, contrary to what ASB says, I LOVE Seasonale and have not experienced unplanned pregnancy while using it.

Thank God. ;-)

[Cindy]

Two words, depo provera. Not four cycles. Try NO cycles. Heaven.

[Mellifluous]

Two words, depo provera. Not four cycles. Try NO cycles. Heaven.

two major side effects-

significant weight gain and osteoporosis. They have shown that prolonged Depo Provera use reduces bone density. Docs recommend that ladies that have been on it for more than 2 years get regular bone scans!

[JennLM]

I gained over 80 pounds on Depro :cry: My chest went from a 36 B/C (inbetween the two) to a 42 DD. Still battling that weight gain since my metabolism stopped dead in it's tracks afterwards.

After I had surgery and a pulmonary embolism(they were supposed to do a hysterectomy and decided in the middle of the operation they didn't need to GRRR), they said NO birth control at all for me so my husband was neutered. (Hehehe I like saying that) Now they have me on a no hormone IUD since I cannot have anymore surgeries.

On the Depro I had a few light ones the first few months then nothing. When I got off I had heavy bleeding for ay ear and in the last month so heavy I ended up in the hospital many times before they would fix it with the IUD.

I think if it works for some, then lucky them adn to go for it because anything helpful with all that womanly stuff, is appreciated I am sure.

[NikiGA]

Depo made me LOSE weight, and my periods were worse. I can't take birth control of any kind. But I have lots of plumbing problems........ :roll:

[ASB.Immortality]

I loved my Depo. I just got the Merina iud (it does have a hormone in it) & will let everyone know what I think of it a little later down the road. I was sick of trying to keep up with pills & shots so the Merina sounded excellent to me. It lasts for 5 years & claims to have the seem advantages that the depo did. So far, I like it but I am less than a week into it good also. ;-)

[Minouri]

The day may come when I need to take drugs to relieve some illness, but till then call me au naturale. I won't even take the pill. It's a personal decision for everyone, but I don't trust anything that changes how your body works.

[Pam M]

I loved Depo Provera - was on it for 2 years and the only side effect was some weight gain. But after I got off it, it took about a year to get regular again and my husband and I tried to get pregnant and haven't been able to. Trying for 5 years now and they can't find any medical reasons. Before Depo, I had 5-7 day periods, now have 3-5 day periods. May be DP, may not be - don't know. But I was really happy with it when I was on it.

[Paula]

4 periods per year? Oh hell no!!!!!! That means more sex... no more two week long periods... ;)

[PASOFAN]

Two words, depo provera. Not four cycles. Try NO cycles. Heaven.

Yep I have been on depo for 8yrs now, no period for 8 yrs!! I love it..

Yep weight gain sucks but tollerable, would rather weigh a bit more than deal w/the period..

My Dr. tells me to make sure I get good calcium, and I do, major dairy fan so I am doing good..

LOVE DEPO!

[motorgypsy]

I always chuckle when I hear women say they wish they lived back in the 1700's or even 1800's. They have no clue. Try dead at 26 on the average. Try married at 15 and 10 kids by age 25. Try legal rape by your spouse and legal beatings, inability to own property or vote, no education and totallly at the power of your father or other male relative if your father is not alive. Try spending your life washing, cooking, cleaning, having and raising babies with little or no medical care. Losing your babies to illness one after another. No clean water, no knowledge of how to stay healthy. Very few baths, no deodorants, no toothpaste, no birthcontrol, no control at all, no air conditioning, no cars, no central heat, no antibiotics, no supermarkets, no fast food, no radio, no airplanes, no computers, no telephones, no indoor plumbing, no washing machines or dryers.

Now let's go to 1956. Girls could not wear slacks or pants to school or to class in college. You stayed freezing cold all winter because tights hadn't been invented. Girls had curfew even in college and guys didn't. Some colleges actually had room cleaning for the guys but not for the girls. We had three TV channels. We got our first TV, a 17 inch black and white, in 1950. Antibiotics had only been around about 15 years. There were only propeller driven commercial planes, no jets. The military got jets in around 1950. There were no computers. Cars were death traps. No seatbelts and in a crash the steering wheel would impale you and the engine would end up in your lap. We were shown pictures of it in school. Birth control pills were first made available generally in perhaps 1959 or so and they were high dosage and had a lot of side effects but women grabbed them up like candy. We knew about our grandmothers and the coats hangers. Margarine was invented not too long before this and automatic washers were first produced around this time as well as dryers and then dishwashers. Families had one car and my dad rode the bus to work and back so my mom had the car available for things she needed to do. I rode my bike to school 14 blocks and it was COLD!! No light weight bikes for us. They were huge and weighed a ton and we had to go up and down curbs at every block. In the south there were separate schools for black and white, separate restrooms, separate water fountains and black people were not allowed in many places. As a kid I never could understand it. It seemed very dumb. My parents thought so too. The Korean war was just recently over and it was the first war we were in where there was no winner. The country had a werid feeling because of it. We couldn't really understand why we didn't win.

Yes we had a lot of good times and for women it was finally a time where we felt that equality of opportunity was within sight and control of our own destiny was possible. We were all a bunch of romantics - get married by prince charming and live happily every after. It didn't work out like that for at least half of us - probably a lot more. There was a lot of spousal abuse, a lot of infidelity, a lot of people who stayed married for the "sake of the kids" when the kids would have preferred that they separate. All this was kept quiet but it happened a lot. We were called the silent generation but that doesn't mean we didn't do things. It just means we kept our mouths shut about what we did.

There are a lot of things today's girls are missing out on and life today is really stressful and complicated but they have a lot more opportunity to do what they choose to do with their lives - if they are willing to do what is necessary to get where they want to go.

AHHH the memories!!!!